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travelling taxidermists or contributed by gentlemen who have had the 

 benefit of their teaching or services. 



Under the energetic supervision of Dr. Alcock, the naturalist to 

 the Marine Survey, the dredging operations carried out in connec- 

 tion with the Survey work of the Indian Marine Survey Steamer 

 " Investigator," under Commander Alfred Carpenter, R. N., continue to 

 brino- in ffood harvests of results for the benefit of the Indian Museum 

 and also of our Journal. Dr. Alcock has worked out the Fishes of the 

 Bay of Bengal which had been brought together since the commence- 

 ment of the Survey, and has published the results in two papers in our 

 Journal and one in the Annals and Magazine of Nahtral History, which 

 will be duly noticed hereafter. Dr. Alcock's investigations shew that 

 the Museum collection of deep-sea Fishes is probably rivalled only by 

 the great collections in the British Museum and United States National 

 Museum. 



In the last published Report of the Trustees, 1888-1889, many very 

 important contributions to the collections of Marine Zoology made by 

 the Survey are noted by Mr. Wood-Mason, besides others in the In- 

 vertebrate and Vertebrate collections, among which may be specially 

 mentioned Dr. J. Scully's donation of no less than 2,765 skins of Birds, 

 nearly all collected by himself in Turkistan, Nepal and Gilgit, and of 

 about 200 specimens of Mammals collected in the same regions. 



The Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol. XXI, contains a further 

 instalment of the Reports on the collections made in the Mergui Archi- 

 pelago for the Trustees by Dr. J. Anderson, F. R. S., and this completes 

 the work. The reports include Pennatulida, by Professor A. M. Mar- 

 shall, F. R. S., and Dr. G. Herbert Fowler ; the Myriopoda, by Mr. 

 R. J. Pocock ; the Comatulce, by Dr. P. H. Carpenter, F. R. S. ; the 

 Echinoidea, by Professor P. Martin Duncan, F. R. S., and Mr. W. P. 

 Sladen ; the Asteroidea by Mr. W. P. Sladen ; Mammals, Reptiles and 

 Batrachians by Dr. J. Anderson, F. R. S. These will all be further 

 noticed hereafter under " Zoology." 



The Economic Section has made good progress and much useful 

 work has been done towards making a type collection of the most im- 

 portant economic products. It is, however, difiicult to do much in this 

 or other directions till the completion of the new buildings in Sudder 

 Street. At the instance of the Grovernmentof India in the Revenue and 

 Agricultural Department, an important collection of Indian Fibres has 

 been undertaken. It is intended to distribute the specimens to the 

 Imperial Institute and to various institutions in England. 



The LxicTcjiow Museum. Under charge of Dr. A. Fiihrer this Museum 

 has made good progress during 1888-89. Large additions, chiefly zoo- 



